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Apple are bastards.

HDV is MPEG-2.

QuickTime Pro 7 on Windows comes without the MPEG-2 plugin, it sells for $20 last time I checked.

Once you buy the MPEG-2 plugin, it still does not allow decoding of HDV in Quicktime container.


If you are unfortunate enough to have footage in Quicktime/HDV, or were silly enough to capture with FCP into HDV (you can capture in ProRes HDV with FCP - which QuickTime for Windows will decode, thus work in Premiere), do not worry, there is help for you.

You have 2 options of getting MOV/HDV footage working in Windows.

1. You transcode it.
2. You demux it back to an MPEG stream.

The best method is obvously 2, as it doesn't recompress/re-encode, you will not lose quality.

[Note - I (mike) deleted Option 1, cause who cares about the transcode? Link is above if you want the lossy way]

2. Demuxing
This method has been tested with both Premiere Pro CS3 and Premiere Pro CS4.

Download AviDemux, Avanti and FFmpeg (choose latest) for Windows.

Install AviDemux.

You will need WinRAR or 7-Zip to Extract the Avanti and FFmpeg packages for Windows.

Extract Avanti, put it in C:\Avanti or a preferred place, before running Avanti, extract ffmpeg (all files in archive) to the ffmpeg sub directory in the Avanti directory.

Run Avanti

In source one, click browse and locate your craptime MOV file, click browse on destination and type file name and press enter.

Change the codec for audio to demux audio, same with video, change it to demux video and change the drop box next to it called container to ES.

check enable for video, click start, uncheck video then check audio and click start, this will generate a .mpg and a .wav

Your .mpg and .wav files are now ready to be used in Premiere.

However, for best performance in Premiere I recommend an extra following step.

Run AviDemux, click file and open and locate the newly created .mpg file, and open it, when it asks to index click yes.

Set the video track to copy, and the audio track to WAV LPCM, change the format to MPEG-PS (do -not- use MPEG-TS).

Now click the Audio menu and click main track, change source to External Wav.

Then hit browse and locate the newly created .wav file and hit open.

Now go to File->Save->Save Video, find a location to save in, type a file name and use the extension .mpg or .mpeg


Now you can import this file in Premiere, it'll take a few seconds to import and then to conform it after importing, but once it's done, it'll act and behave nicely, and performance will be fast (or at least normal) rather than doggedly slow as it would be if you captured to ProRes.

You can do batch conversion with FFmpeg via command line.

K5000 posted:

I just changed the container 'ES' to 'mpg'. However, it only allows me to demux CAM1-1 with this method, other files give an error somewhere along the way (usually 33% or something like that) and the demux is not completed.

smallpbigandas posted:

Thanks a lot, I'll give this a try immediately.

TheInternetIsSerious posted:

JessicaSarahS posted:

SUPER was the first thing I tried. It worked once for cam 1-1, but ever since then it just crashes every time I try to use it.

Bizarre. What OS? And what show for that matter. I'm working with the Victoria CAM 1 footage currently.

LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\MPEG2Dec3.dll" 
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\decomb.dll"
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\UnDot.dll"
video=mpeg2source("victoria.d2v" 
audio=wavsource("victoria.wav"
audiodub(video,audio)
Telecide(order=1,guide=1).Decimate()
LanczosResize(1280,720)
ConvertToYV12()

Gowron72 posted:

so (hope it helps you) here´s my way to extract audio/video from the .mov containers with the target to use audio and hd-video in windows-based authoring-programms.